The event starts on January 25. Each day, we will post a small synopsis of the author’s short story and a link to their website. Here’s where the hunt begins. There are secret sweethearts hidden on each authors’ websites with part of a message. Unscramble the message and enter to win!

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Caroline Reynolds has a fantastic new apartment in San Francisco, a KitchenAid mixer, and no O (and we’re not talking Oprah here, folks). She has a flourishing design career, an office overlooking the bay, a killer zucchini bread recipe, and no O. She has Clive (the best cat ever), great friends, a great rack, and no O.

Adding insult to O-less, since her move, she has an oversexed neighbor with the loudest late-night wallbanging she’s ever heard. Each moan, spank, and–was that a meow?–punctuates the fact that not only is she losing sleep, she still has, yep, you guessed it, no O.

In her third novel, Alice Clayton returns to dish her trademark mix of silly and steamy. Banter, barbs, and strutting pussycats, plus the sexiest apple pie ever made, are dunked in a hot tub and set against the gorgeous San Francisco skyline in this hot and hilarious tale of exasperation at first sight.

Alice Clayton is a novelist with an unholy love for her KitchenAid mixer. Making her home in St Louis, she enjoys gardening but not weeding, baking but not cleaning up afterwards, and is trying desperately to get her long time boyfriend to make her an honest woman. Hi sweetie!!

After working for years in the cosmetics industry as a makeup artist, esthetician, and national educator for a major cosmetics company, Alice picked up a pen (read laptop) for the first time at 33 to begin a new career, writer. Combining her love of storytelling with a sense of silly, she was shocked and awed to be nominated for a Goodreads Author award in 2010 for her debut novels, The Redhead Series.

Alice has penned three novels, The Unidentified Redhead,The Redhead Revealed, and coming soon in November 2012, Wallbanger. She thinks you should purchase them immediately. She’s not kidding, not even a little bit. Everyone needs some comedic erotica in their lives. She is hard at work on the third book in The Redhead Series, set to release in Spring of 2013, continuing the saucy and sexual escapades of everyone’s favorite couple, Jack and Grace.

Additionally, Alice loves spending time with her besties on Not Your Mother's Podcast, make sure you check them out at notyourmotherspodcast.com or over on iTunes. 3 women rushing towards their forties still acting like teenagers. A saucy little mix of sex, love, relationships, pop cultural, celebrity gossip and All Things Jake Ryan.

Alice enjoys pickles, Bloody Mary’s, 8 hours of sleep, and a good pounding.

Finally Alice would also like all her readers and listeners to help her convince Mt. Alice that the only other thing that would make her truly happy is finally bringing home a Bernese Mountain Dog. She is totally serious. And done talking about herself in the third person…

This book was hilarious. I was on the floor laughing my bum off most of the time. I am not a cat person by any means, but I found myself wanting a pet just like Clive - one that would flip me off when he was mad and pee on some dude's shirt who tried to get into my pants.

The Wallbanger --- uh, yum…

Despite the fact that a huge turn off for me just happens to be unforgiving man-whores, Simon turned a new leaf and, therefore, gave me a change of heart. He is truly a sweetheart, and I love that he is so funny as well.

Great, fun read. Plot line is predictable, but its a tale that isn't meant to take too serious. Just a good comedy full with spice and delectable jokes that where written with great comedic timing. Ms. Clayton has a knack for weaving a romantic comedy that I could totally see being portrayed on the big screen. This is a P2P fanfiction, just in case that's a turn off for you as the reader.

If you're looking for an entertaining read with little to think about, read this one! You'll laugh your butt off and have a new respect for the feline species. I gave it:

A Lovely Addiction

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